Through conservation agriculture practices, farmers contribute to reducing emissions while combating land degradation.

In central and eastern Europe, soil conservation activities are implemented with the support of initiatives focusing mainly on combating soil erosion, land fertility management and water conservation.

Most of the adaptation options identified for agriculture relate to crop management, land management, and soil and water conservation.

As a result of our conservation efforts, Bhutan has successfully maintained 72.5 per cent of its land area under forest cover.

In Africa, the ongoing initiatives for rehabilitating degraded land are focused on reforestation, soil conservation and integrated management of water resources.

Providing economic incentives to farmers and industries, for example in the form of low interest credit, tax relief and subsidies, could encourage investments in water conservation, low cost waste water treatment, soil conservation and other land management practices.

Their activities are mainly concerned with the recovery of degraded land, the rehabilitation of the natural environment, and water and soil conservation.

WFP also carried out programmes on land conservation and water management in other sub Saharan countries such as Burkina Faso, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda.

Conservation

The overall goal of the WP activity is to identify conservation and rehabilitation case studies and technologies which address issues relating to the control of land degradation.

Fishy Conservation Efforts

World Conservation Union

Forests and terrestrial ecosystems Forest management and conservation were seen by several Parties as important to protect watersheds, combat land degradation and desertification, preserve species and sequester carbon.

Making Water Conservation Pay

Energy conservation and efficiency

Tourism and biodiversity conservation

The Economics of Conservation

World Conservation Union (IUCN).

The World Conservation Union

Storage and conservation of harvests.

Department of Soil Conservation and

Environmental protection and conservation organization

Conservation and management of marine biodiversity

Soil Science and Conservation Research Institute

IUCN was committed to making biodiversity conservation work more effectively for the poor, including through its Conservation for Poverty Reduction Initiative.

Knowledge gaps (coordinated by Ornas) Integrated assessment for poverty and land degradation (Febles) Benchmarks and indicators (Abraham) Early warning systems (Castillo) Methods of assessing desertification (Takeuchi) Case studies on conservation and rehabilitation (Singh).

Even before the decision to make land degradation a focal area, the GEF informed on assistance provided to African countries in meeting the biodiversity conservation and climate change objectives through dryland management projects.

R. Constantine, Effects of tourism on marine mammals in New Zealand, Science for Conservation, Department of Conservation, Wellington, New Zealand, No. 106, 1999, found at http www.doc.govt.nz publications 004 science and research Science for Conservation PDF sfc106.pdf.

I needed to head towards conservation goals.

Wildlife Conservation Society more dealing with plants.

Were they interested in conservation? Absolutely not.

H. Conservation of Antarctic fauna and flora

Conservation agriculture promises economic and environmental benefits.

Towards the implementation of its Conservation Measures, the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources is increasingly cooperating with non contracting parties.

IUCN International Union for the Conservation of Nature

Providing a direct source of income for conservation.

IUCN International Union for the Conservation of Nature

C. Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Seals

Small farmers need options other than slash and burn farming to boost their meager incomes. There is a clear need for an integrated land management approach involving conservation, rehabilitation, investment in sustainable livelihoods, and institutional reforms.

Continuously raising the level of grassland conservation and construction

And it brought me straight into the conservation fray.

We have already reshaped conservation in the entire country.

But geothermal, concentrating solar, advanced photovoltaics, efficiency and conservation.

And Conservation International had struck some of those deals.

They have also set up environmental and conservation programmes.